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CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

/2 I (Ewan/whoa; @Wywwz JOHN H. SIMPSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CUFF-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 25, 1909.

hatented Feb. 22, 1910.

Serial No. 485,664.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN H. SIMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at, Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cuff buttons, and especially to what are known in the art and the trade as link buttons, being adapted for securing the parts together where the edges do not overlap.

The object of the invention is to provide a button of this character which is simple in construction, economical to manufacture and in which all springs, catches, clips and other movable or adjustable parts are dispensed with.

Another object is to provide buttons which may be quickly and easily adjusted to and removed from the cuffs and which will, at the same time, retain their position and hold the cuffs in proper position.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of this improved button applied. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the button attached. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of another form of button.

In the form shown the button or fastener is made in the form of an arc-shaped member 5, having longitudinally spaced heads 6 and 7 arranged intermediately of the ends of said member and made integral therewith. Shoes 8 and 9 are formed at the free ends of said member and spaced from said heads. These shoes are preferably made heart-shaped, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the stems or shanks 10 and 11 which connect them with the heads are preferably off-set to adapt the shoes to lie in planes approximately parallel with the plane of the heads. In the application of this form, the shoes 8 and 9 are inserted through the button holes of the cuff and lie on the inner face thereof, as shown in dotted lines on Fig. 5, with the heads 6 and 7 arranged in the space between the edges of the ends of the cuff.

In the form shown in Fig. 3, the fastener is constructed similarly to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the exception that the heads, as 12, and shoes, as 13, are slit at opposite sides of the shank 14 which connects them, to cause the outer faces of the shoes to lie closely against the inner faces of the cuff". when applied, the shanks 14 being bent at an angle, as shown in Fig. 2. No attempt has been made to illustrate or describe herein any sort of ornamentation for the heads but it is to be understood that they may be made in a variety of ornamental designs, either by working designs into or upon the heads shown, or by providing exterior heads in ornamental designs and attaching them to the plain heads herein represented.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention, as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is:

1. An approximately arc-shaped cull fastener comprising a strip of metal having shoes at its opposite ends and disk-like heads spaced longitudinally from each other and from said shoes, said shoes being arranged in a plane parallel to that of the heads.

2. An approximately arc-shaped cuff fastener comprising a strip of metal having shoes at its opposite ends, and disk-like heads spaced longitudinally from each other and from said shoes, the stems or shanks of said shoes being off-set to cause said shoes to extend approximately in a plane parallel to that of the heads.

3. A one piece cuff fastener comprising a strip of metal having longitudinally spaced heads with integral shanks extending from opposite sides thereof, shoes at the ends of said shanks and spaced from said heads, set my hand in presence of two subscribing said shoes and heads being slit on opposite Witnesses.

sides of said shank said slits extending a T portion of the Width of said heads, said JOHN SIMPSON 5 shanks being bent at an angle relatively to Witnesses:

the heads. BERT. V. CLARK,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto PERRY W. GARDNER. 

